Busy babysitting consultants in to make up a proper oracle
on HP installation for us. OK, it'll be nice and fault
tolerant, but it's a lot more hassle than a MySQL
installation. Speaking of, the MySQL database
supporting my webmail
system has corrupted a table, messing things up no end. I
thought this free software lark was supposed to be "Bug free
(tm)" ?

Anyway, we are getting some clothes made up for the geeks
expected at the ILUG
AGM. Seeing as they need toys too, we are trying to get
a dose of BBC CDs burned in time - little 50 MB "repair
tool" CDs, in a business card form factor. Checkout the
linux care site for info on what they have on them
(linuxcare made the distro).

Checkout a really cool review of OSes at Neal
Stephenson's site. If you haven't read any of his
books, buy Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash. They rock.